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>(we know that current rehabilitation methods work well for some crimes and not for others) Somewhat off-topic but I find this interesting, can you elaborate o

• kerkeslager 7y ago
  I don't have anything resembling a full list, but rehabilitation seems to be effective for drug-related crimes[1]. I was going to say that sex offenders seem resistant to rehabilitation, but apparently that is no longer the case[2] (good news!). The cited meta-analysis of studies from 1995-2002 found little-no benefit from rehabilitation then, but the 2015 meta-analysis I linked shows rehabilitation to have "proven" or at least "promising" results--this is probably due to progress in rehabilitation methods. It's widely believed that serial killers can't be rehabilitated, but as far as I can tell there really isn't data to back that up (most of them stay in jail forever, so we don't have recidivism data). So I don't think we can add serial killers to the list of non-rehabilitatable (sp?) crimes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism#Drug-related_crime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism#Drug-related_crime [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25575803 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25575803